Every review on Worth or Skip ends in one of two words: WORTH IT or SKIP. There is no star rating, no score out of ten, and no “it depends” ending. If a product is only worth it under a condition, the verdict says the condition.
How a product gets reviewed
1. It has to be a real buying question
I write about products people are actively deciding on — the searches that end in “worth it”, “vs”, “alternatives”, “review”. I do not write round-ups of things nobody asked about in order to have a page for them.
2. I use it, or I say I did not
Hands-on wherever hands-on is possible: bought, installed, run on real work for long enough to hit the parts a demo never reaches. Where that is genuinely not possible — a product priced beyond what this site can justify, or one requiring an account type I do not qualify for — the review states that in the “What we checked” section, in plain words, near the top. It is never implied.
3. I check the claims, not the marketing
Specifications get verified against primary sources: the vendor’s own documentation, the pricing page on the date of writing, the terms of service, the actual invoice. Prices and plan structures change constantly, so every review carries a last checked date and describes the price as of that date.
4. I write who it is NOT for, first
Every review has a mandatory section listing the buyers who should walk away. It is written before the pros. A product that suits everybody is a product I have not understood yet.
5. I show more than one way to buy
Where alternatives exist, they are listed with the trade-off spelled out, and linked to more than one vendor. A page with exactly one link is a placement. A page that tells you when to buy something else is a recommendation.
6. The verdict gets stamped, with a reason on the same line
Why we publish SKIP
Because a review site that never says no has no information in it.
If every product I write about turns out to be worth buying, the only thing a reader learns from a WORTH IT stamp is that I found an affiliate programme. The SKIP verdicts are what make the WORTH IT verdicts mean anything. They cost me money — a SKIP page earns close to nothing — and that cost is precisely the point.
This has a consequence you can check: look at whether the SKIP reviews are on obscure products nobody sells, or on products with live, well-paying affiliate programmes. The second is the honest version.
What money does and does not buy
- Some links here are affiliate links. If you buy through one, this site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This is disclosed at the top of every page carrying such a link.
- No vendor pays for a verdict, a placement, a position in a comparison table, or a review at all.
- No vendor reads a review before it publishes.
- Where a product, trial, or extended access is ever provided at no cost, that is disclosed inside the specific review it produced, by name, near the top — not only on the disclosure page.
When a verdict changes
Products change. A SKIP can become WORTH IT when the broken thing gets fixed, and a WORTH IT can become SKIP when a vendor is acquired, raises prices, or moves a feature behind a higher tier.
When that happens the review is updated, the last checked date changes, and the change is noted in the page rather than made silently. A review that has quietly flipped its verdict is a review you cannot trust in either direction.
What I get wrong
I will get things wrong. When you find one, tell me through the Contact page. Factual corrections get made and marked. This paragraph exists so the first correction is not a surprise to anybody.
Who writes this: one person, named, with a checkable record — Roberto Oliveira.